What: Hands-on practical course, day 3 allows for you to work on your projects and portfolio.

When: 3 day course

Time: 9:45pm - 4:00pm (45 minute lunch break)

Location: London Software Training, 17, Sheep Lane, London, E8 3FA

Your course price includes

• Expert teaching from practising architects, designers and software pros
• Hands-on, practical lessons - tailoring of syllabus and work on your projects
• Class recordings for revision and development
• LST certificate of completion for your CV and LinkedIn

Your tutors are designers, makers and architects, as well as software pros. They will guide you on the best way to apply for design roles or set-up a creative business, whilst teaching you all the key technical skills to make your CV and portfolio stand out from the crowd.

Autodesk Fusion fundamentals 

• Feature-based modelling
• Parametric features
• Managing assembled designs 
• Design documentation

Getting Started

• Understanding workspaces
• Understanding projects

The Autodesk Fusion interface

• Ribbon, BROWSER, accessing commands

Design navigation and display

• Design navigation
• ViewCube
• Named views
• Design display
• Geometry selection
• Environment and effects 

Managing your designs and project data

• Importing and exporting data
• Using A360 and Fusion to manage data
• Version management

Create your first feature with quick shapes

• Design units and origin
• Quick shape creation

Sketching

   
Introduction to sketching

• Starting a new sketch
• Creating sketch objects
• Turning sketches into 3D objects

Sketch Entities

• Line, spline, points

Rectangles

• Circle, arcs

Dimensioning

• Dynamic input
• Sketch dimensions and constraints
• Extruding and revolving a sketch

Additional entity types

• Polygons, Ellipse
• Slot
• Tangent arch using a line
• Tangent line between circles or arcs
• Fillets
• Construction entities 

Editing tools

• Trim, Extend, Mirror
• Centre dimensions
• Radius or diameter dimensions
• Angular dimensions
• Over-constrained sketches
• Additional dimension tools
• Sketched secondary features
• Using existing geometry to project new geometry

3D modelling
The different modelling options available

Solid modelling

• Direct modelling and history modelling

 

Parametric modelling

• Changing aspects of your model that automatically update

 

Part libraries and content

• Accessing standard parts
• Importing parts data into a design

 

Feature duplication tools

• Mirroring geometry
• Patterning features
• Rectangular and circular patterns
• Pattern on path

 

Pick and place features

• Fillets, chamfers, holes
• Editing pick and place features

 

Construction features

• Construction planes, axes and points
• Equations and parameters

 

Additional features

• Thread
• Press pull

Assemblies

• Approach 1: traditional distributed design
• Approach 2: Top-down (multi-body)

Visualizations, rendered images and animations

• Materials and appearances
• Decals
• Environments 
• Rendering
• Animations
• Exploding assemblies

Drawings

• Creating 2D drawings from a model
• Add dimensions, balloons and annotations
• Creating a Bill of Materials (BOM)

Importing CAD data

• Importing other file types - documents, images, specifications